Tag: Gaza starvation
Israel deliberately obstructing aid, says former PM Helen Clark
By Niva Chittock, RNZ News WorldWatch presenter/producer
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into...
MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime
Pacific Media Watch
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has condemned the continued targeted killing of media workers in Gaza and the baseless smearing of...
RSF calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after targeted Israeli...
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Israeli military's "disgraceful tactic" to cover up war crimes in...
Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick barred from NZ Parliament for rest of...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament's debating chamber and told to...
Why Israel’s assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and crew threatens...
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
I never knew Anas al-Sharif personally. But somehow he seemed to be part of our whānau.
We watched...
PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia...
Asia Pacific Report
A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for...
Soaring food prices prove the Gaza famine is real – and...
ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The words and pictures documenting the famine in the Gaza strip are horrifying.
The...
Eugene Doyle: Recognise Palestine? Then free Marwan Barghouti
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The world’s most important hostage -- must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the...
Debunked – Israel’s top 10 lies on Gaza, as exposed by...
Pacific Media Watch
The New York Times recently revealed that the Israeli military has “never found proof” that Hamas has “systematically stolen aid from the...
Australian media faces existential crisis after realising ‘free Palestine’ might extend...
COMMENTARY: By Clancy Overell, editor of The Betoota Advocate
After years of sitting on the fence and looking the other way, the Australian media is...
Palestine surveillance author says Australian protesters ‘outraged’ by Israel’s war on...
Pacific Media Watch
Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, says Australian protesters are “outraged” not...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins Sydney Gaza humanitarian protest as thousands...
Asia Pacific Report
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was among the tens of thousands of protesters in Australia staging a "humanitarians for Gaza" march today across...
Israel backing Gaza ‘gangs’ to create unlivable chaos, says academic
Asia Pacific Report
While the Israeli government claims it is backing "clans" in Gaza to counter the resistance movement Hamas, the groups it supports more...
NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood,...
As protesters condemn Western media ‘complicity’, Gaza journalists struggle for survival
Asia Pacific Report
Protesters demonstrated outside several major US media outlets in Washington this week condemning their coverage of the genocide in Gaza, claiming they...
New Zealand’s shameful role in the 1917 destruction of Gaza
As we’ve watched from afar the tragedy unfolding in Gaza over the past 22 months, it’s worth remembering the part New Zealand troops played...
Fiji ‘failing’ the Gaza genocide and humanity test, says rights group
Asia Pacific Report
The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji has sharply criticised the Fiji government's stance over Israel's genocide in Gaza, saying it...
‘We pose no threat – our aim is to break the...
No New Zealanders were on board the Handala in the latest arrest and abductions of Freedom Flotilla crew on humanitarian siege-busting missions to Gaza....
Debunking the theological gaslighting of Israel-supporting Imams
Muslims, and the global community, must rally around the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights: to exist, to return home, and to live free from occupation.
ANALYSIS:...
Gaza condemns Israeli ‘piracy’ over storming of Handala aid ship
Asia Pacific Report
The Gaza Government Media Office has condemned “in the strongest terms” Israel’s storming of the Handala aid ship, calling it an act...
Handala freedom ship loaded with Gaza aid bracing for Israeli forces
Asia Pacific Report
An activist on board the Handala, a Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid to the besieged enclave in a bid to break...
Gaza: Global community must act amid reports of starvation of journalists,...
By Jamie Wiseman
The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined calls for urgent action to halt the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza as global news...